Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-27
CARE OF CHILDREN.
GUARDING THE PEACE AND BLESS
INGS OF HOME.
A Few Timely Words Intended for
Those Who are Charged With
Nursery Duties.

Mothers who in the long, hot days of
this season are watching your poor little
babies pining and fading away, while all
experiments, with various foods and medi-
cines, fail to vanquish the terrible foe and
summer scourge, cholera infantum, try the
following: Give up at once the use of
milk in any way prepared, either boiled,
condensed, mixed, in large or small guam
titles, with any of the cereal foods; not a
drop of milk until the child is well and
the summer is over Get pound of lean,
fresh beef; the butcher must cut it at least
an inch thick, from the finest portion of
the round. Use one-half of it for beef
juice, by rule given later; take the other
half raw upon plate, hold it steady with
fork stuck firmly into the piece near the
edge, and with q small, sharp steel knife,
grasped partly by the blade as well as by
the handle, scrape, away from you, the
whole length of the beef across the top.
What you thus take from the beef will be
a fine, smooth paste, and for a very sick
Hby one-half a teaspoonful will be enough
beef closely with a saucer, and put it right
away on ice, or in the coolest place, until
you want TO scrape some more to feed the
child again.
Sprinkle the scraped beef with little
salt, and take small pinches of it in your
thumb and finger, and put it so upon the
baby's tongue. A child of five or six
months can swallow and digest this fine,
smooth paste, when every drop of milk
will turn TO curd and acid and burn its
poor little stomach. Give the child water
only to drink and crushed ice from 4 small
spoon. To crush the ice very fine and
quickly put into clean, stout cloth, about
as large as a handkerchief, piece of ice
the size of an egg. Take up the four cor
ners of the cloth loosely like sling, and
strike the ice, with three or four sharp,
smart strokes, upon the edge of marble
slab or stone window-sill The ice will be
mashed fine almost rs snow. You can give
five to ten drops of brandy upon such
crushed ice. 1t is 4 good plan to keep
some brandy in a small bottle, little
sweetened, ready for use in this way. Feed
the baby often with small quantities of the
beef-one-half teaspoonful every hour, and
brandy with ice between until you see i'm
proyement, then you can give little more
at one time and not quite so often, and
after forty-eight hours, perhaps sooner,
some stale bread crumbs and beef Juice.
Crumb fine a piece of bread, stale but
perfectly sweet and light, about two inches
square. A little champion cracker will
do, but bread is better. Pour very little
boiling water upon it, enough to enable
you to mash it to 4 smooth, stiff paste.
Heat piece of the other half of the beef
over hot Goals, but not enough to cook it.
Take from the fire upon hot plate, cut it
into pieces two inches square. score them
with a sharp knife, sprinkle little salt
upon them and squeeze the Juice from
them with lemon-squeezer Many poor
have no lemon-squeezeri Well, wash your
hands very clean in cold water and do your
best, squeezing with your hands, Mix
the bread paste and beef juice, and feed
very slowly, in small quantities, to the
baby. To baby very weak and young,
you must feed it with your fingers a
stronger child can be fed with a spoon,
but remember, only small bits at each
mouthful. If the child is old enough to
swallow bread and butter, when it gets
better, let it eat stale bread, sparely
buttered, or crumbed into the beef juice
freely, and give plenty of the raw, scraped
beef. On this diet three of my little children
were saved from death by cholera in
fantum, and one ate nothing else for more
than year, excepting, after two or three
months, an occasional baked potato, mixed
with the raw beef, and sometimes little
well-boiled rice, with little sweet butter
and sugar, and drank only water. a table
spoonful of milk would work instant mis-
chief with these three children.
Without drugs, ! have succeeded in
bringing several apparently dying children
back to life upon this diet of raw-beef
paste and bread and beef juice Sometimes
the persistent use of milk has so infamed
the stomach and bowels with its sharp acid
as to require a corrective. Then give lit
tie powders of bi-carbonate of potash-two,
three or five grains each, as the child is
five or six months or year old Dissolve
one in the crushed-ice, and feed the baby
with it from a small spoon, a powder three
or four times day. 1t is very tasteless.
No doubt your doctor will laugh you to
scorn when you try to bring your baby
up on raw beef and bread and butter, But
let those laugh who VIM And this is
the experience of mother of nine chill
dren.-Chicdg0 Inter Ocean.